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Ochil and South Perthshire

 
Wikipedia: Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 56°16′52″N 3°32′42″W / 56.281°N 3.545°W / 56.281; -3.545

Ochil and South Perthshire
County constituency
OchilSouthPerthshireConstituency.svg
Ochil and South Perthshire shown within Scotland
Created: 2005
MP: Gordon Banks
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
Council areas: Clackmannanshire/Perth and Kinross
EP constituency: Scotland

Ochil and South Perthshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created as a result of the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland[1] and first used in the 2005 general election. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents

Boundaries

Council areas
grouped by the Fifth Review
Clackmannanshire, Perth and Kinross.png
Clackmannanshire and Perth and Kinross

The constituency was created to cover the Clackmannanshire council area and a southern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area. Perth and North Perthshire was created, at the same time, to cover the rest of the Perth and Kinross council area.

Prior to the 2005 election, the council areas had been covered by the Angus, Ochil, Perth and North Tayside constituencies. The Perth constituency was entirely within the Perth and Kinross council area, the North Tayside constituency covered a northern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area and a northern portion of the Angus council area, the Angus constituency covered a small southeastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, a southern portion of the Angus council area, and northern portions of the Dundee City council area, and the Ochil constituency covered another southeastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, the whole of the Clackmannanshire council area and a southeastern portion of the Stirling council area.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
2005 Gordon Banks Labour

Election results

General Election 2005: Ochil and South Perthshire[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Banks 14,645 31.4 −2.0
SNP Annabelle Ewing 13,957 29.9 −1.7
Conservative Elizabeth Smith 10,021 21.5 −0.6
Liberal Democrats Catherine Whittingham 6,218 13.3 +2.8
Scottish Green George Baxter 978 2.1 N/A
Scottish Socialist Iain Campbell 420 0.9 −0.9
UKIP David Bushby 275 0.6 N/A
Free Scotland Party Maitland Kelly 183 0.4 N/A
Majority 688 1.5
Turnout 46,697 66.0 +3.6
Labour hold Swing −0.2

Predecessor seats

General Election 2001: Ochil
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Martin O’Neill 16,004 45.3 +0.3
SNP Keith Brown 10,655 30.2 −4.2
Conservative Alasdair Campbell 4,235 12.0 −2.6
Liberal Democrats Paul Edie 3,253 9.2 +4.0
Scottish Socialist Pauline Thomson 751 2.1 N/A
Monster Raving Loony Flash Gordon Approaching 405 1.1 N/A
Majority 5,349 15.1
Turnout 35,303 61.3 −16.1
Labour hold Swing

Notes and references

  1. ^ Boundary Commission for Scotland website
  2. ^ "Election 20005; Result: Ochil and South Perthshire". BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation). 2005-05-06. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/720.stm. Retrieved 2008-07-26. 

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